The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-22

A gentleman in this city sent the fol.
lowing letter in reply to an inquiry as
to the advantages, resources and pros
poets OF Ogden:
Your favor, dated April the 18th,
reached me last evening. I take pleas
ure in complying with your request,
and send by to-day's mail copies OF each
of our daily papers. Ogden is favor
ably situated at the terminus of five
lines of railway, the q. P, G. P, q. c.,
q. d n. and D. & R. G. w. The three
former are standard guage. and the U.
q n. will be broadened during the COM
ing summer. You will see that our
| facilities for transportation are good. In
The Ogden and Weber Rivers, which
| flow through our city, we have water
power sufficient to turn the wheels of
numerous manufactures. Our soil is
very fertile, producing the finest of
cereals and fruits. We have one of the
finest wool-growing climates in the
United States, while cattle and horses
thrive abundantly on the rich grasses
of our mountain ranges. In the i'm
mediate vicinity of our city are illimit-
able deposits of iron ore, from which
we have produced iron, pronounced by
experts as fine as any produced in the
world; but, unfortunately, our iron
works fell into the hands of eastern par.
ties who had competing interests, and
the industry was stopped. Coal is
also abundant and convenient, our eli
mate is one of the finest in the United
States, being neither intensely cold in
winter nor hot in summer. Utah's
silver mines are already famous and in
a new district about twenty-five miles
north of Ogden new mine has recently
been reported sold for $1,OOO,OOO. This
city is the natural geographical and
railroad centre for a vast area of
country rich in agricultural and mineral
resources. Our taxes are light and our
city and county are free from debt. The
valuation of property for purposes of
municipal ta1atlou is about 80
value and the rate of taxa
ton is one-h half of per cent. County,
territorial and school taxes are assessed
at about the same valuation at about
"a per cent. This makes total taxa
ton for all purposes equal to only
alittle more than one-half of per cent.
of the actual cash value of property,
which speaks volumes for the admins
tration OF local government. Our city
charges high license for traffic in
liquor and prohibits gambling and pros
titution.
The brief space of this letter will not
permit an extended review of our
resources, advantages and prospects,
but will probably enable you to form
partial idea of what we expect in the
future. The prospects of our city for
the future seem to be very promising.
The religio-political strife which has
been receiving so much attention from
local agitatorSand which I have reason
to believe has deferred outside capital
from making investments here, seemsto
be giving way to united business
energy. While this strife has never
endangered either life or property, it
has retarded progress and prevented
development, and the commercial and
material interests of our country will
advance much more rapidly where all
classes of the community labor to for
ward them. In the foregoing l have
endeavQred to give you fair, truthful
and correct statement of the points
touched upon, land will be pleased to
furnish any further information that
may be desired, and if you conclude
to visit Ogden will be pleased to show |
you the points of interest of our city |
and more fully explain our natural
and advantages.